What you can do, though, is spin a tale. Tell him that he wakes up in a cave surrounded by kobolds tied to a spit with logs being put under him. Gives the other players a quest and gives him a second chance with the char.

I think it would be even funnier to create a complicated Towers of Hanoi with like 30 rings against people that know the rules, but not tell them that those rules don't exist and all they have to do is transfer the entire stack to another pole.